Interrogation vad in person at Atrium Health Cabarrus

920 Church St N, Concord, NC · Atrium Health · · NPI 1487866315

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Dec 1, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$221.03

Cash price

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Discounted cash price

What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$442.05

Gross charge

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Gross charge (chargemaster price)

The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this.

Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.

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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$28.50 with Partners vs $419.95 with Multiplan — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate

The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.

Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.

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Payer
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Payer

The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on.

Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509.

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Plan
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Plan

The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates.

Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Partners Managed Medicaid $28.50 ↓ -87%
Trillium Managed Medicaid $28.50 ↓ -87%
Vaya Managed Medicaid $28.79 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Managed Medicaid $28.79 ↓ -87%
Healthy Blue Managed Medicaid $28.79 ↓ -87%
Carolina Complete Health Managed Medicaid $28.79 ↓ -87%
Wellcare Managed Medicaid $28.79 ↓ -87%
Amerihealth Caritas Managed Medicaid $28.79 ↓ -87%
Alliance Managed Medicaid $29.07 ↓ -87%
Cigna Healthspring Medicare Advantage $36.64 ↓ -83%
Humana Medicare Advantage $37.37 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare Advantage $37.92 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare Advantage $38.03 ↓ -83%
Ortho Carolina Commercial $45.80 ↓ -79%
Alliance Behavioral Health $54.77 ↓ -75%
Aetna North Carolina Preferred Plus Commercial $95.89 ↓ -57%
Aetna Broad Network $105.80 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare HMO-PPO Managed Care $112.13 ↓ -49%
Aetna Connected North Carolina Individual HMO $117.14 ↓ -47%
MedCost PPO $117.96 ↓ -47%
MedCost Ultra $117.96 ↓ -47%
ChoiceCare Commercial $118.99 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Individual Commercial $118.99 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Local Group Commercial $120.59 ↓ -45%
Ambetter CoBranded Commercial $128.42 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina HMO-PPO Managed Care $148.16 ↓ -33%
Ambetter Individual Commercial $160.46 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare IEX Commercial $177.70 ↓ -20%
Aetna Whole Health HMO $183.45 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial NB $191.41 ↓ -13%
Employers Health Network Commercial $195.39 ↓ -12%
Physician Reach Out Plan P $221.03 ↑ +0%
Cigna HMO-PPO Managed Care $228.98 ↑ +4%
Magellan Behavioral Health $265.23 ↑ +20%
Aetna First Health Commercial $269.65 ↑ +22%
GMMI Commercial $287.33 ↑ +30%
Quik Trip Commercial $287.33 ↑ +30%
Cigna Commercial SAR $298.38 ↑ +35%
Carolina Behavioral Health Employee Plan $318.28 ↑ +44%
Carolina Behavioral Health Commercial $353.64 ↑ +60%
Healthgram Commercial $353.64 ↑ +60%
Private Health Care Systems Commercial $353.64 ↑ +60%
Cigna Behavioral Health $353.64 ↑ +60%
Lifesynch Community Choice Care Behavioral Health $362.48 ↑ +64%
First Health Commercial $375.74 ↑ +70%
Beechstreet Commercial $397.85 ↑ +80%
Multiplan Commercial $419.95 ↑ +90%
Broughton Cardinal Partners Commercial not published by hospital —
Physician Reach Out Plan H not published by hospital —

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Interrogation vad in person at other North-carolina hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Atrium Health Anson Wadesboro $221.03 $28.50 – $419.95
Atrium Health Behavioral Health Charlotte Charlotte $221.03 $28.79 – $389.00
Atrium Health Cleveland Shelby $221.03 $28.50 – $419.95
Atrium Health Lincoln Lincolnton $221.03 $28.50 – $419.95
Atrium Health Mercy Charlotte $221.03 $28.50 – $406.69
Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte $221.03 $28.50 – $406.69
Atrium Health Stanly Albermarle $221.03 $28.50 – $424.37
Atrium Health Union Monroe $221.03 $28.50 – $419.95

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